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What a speech controversy at Stanford tells us about Facebook?s Oversight Board

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Let’s conclude what turned out to be Free Speech Week on The Interface with a look at a case involving the co-chairman of Facebook’s new Oversight Board, a Zoom recording of his law school class, and the N-word. Here’s Nick Anderson in the Washington Post : Stanford University law professor Michael W. Governing. ?

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Cynicism suggests that the TikTok deal will go through

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And Trump’s flouting of the rule of law , however often we have seen it in these past four years, suggests even darker developments to come. The new laws would prevent phone manufacturers from limiting access to near-field communication technology embedded in smartphones and smartwatches. Trending up : Facebook says it’s helped 2.5

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The massive Twitter hack could be a global security crisis

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The suit alleges that Google violated wiretapping and privacy laws. Trending down : Hong Kong activists worry Apple may be censoring the voting platform PopVote, which was developed for the opposition’s primaries — an unofficial election that also served as a protest against the city’s national security law imposed last month by Beijing.

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